Manitoba to set aside large area for federal forest station
The Manitoba government transferred about thirty seven square miles at Duck Mountain to the federal Interior Department for a forest experiment station. The Forest Service will develop roads, buildings, and facilities to study silvicultural methods for increasing timber yield, with a focus on white spruce reproduction and mixed-wood forest management across the belt extending into Saskatchewan and Alberta.
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Manitoba
Dpinion
Duck Mountain
Forest Service
Department of the Interior
Thomas G. Murphy
Duck
Porcupine Mountains
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Northwest Territories
Winnipex
Winnipegoats
Treelens Prairies
Ireland
Thief Stole Stamp Collection Worth Four Billion Dollars
At the Hobby Show in the Horticultural Hall Boston visitors saw a display labeled worth four billion dollars. The thief took reproductions of the world’s most valuable stamps while originals were claimed to be worth that vast sum. Canadian reserves and livestock figures appear in the surrounding notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thles
Horticultural Hall
Boston
Alana
Canadian Hen Development Of Export Trade To Old Country
The Canadian hen export trade to Great Britain has grown notably over the past years. Canada now ships dressed poultry and eggs to Britain, with two and a quarter million pounds of greased poultry sent to markets and egg exports rising from 270,000 to about two million dozen annually. Great Britain remains the chief market.
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Canada
Great Britain
Newfoundland
Britain
Man Narrowly Escapes Plummet From Ski Jump
Frank Williams, a small worker on the Thorncliffe ski jump reconstruction in Toronto, slipped from an 80 foot scaffold. Herman Bautzmann, beneath him on a plank, grabbed Williams as he fell 15 feet. Williams was shaken but unhurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Williams
Thorncliffe
Toronto
Williams
Herman Bautzmann
Bautzmann
Regular North Atlantic airmail schedule eyed for next year
The U S Post Office negotiates with Dr Eckener, Graf Zeppelin designer, to inaugurate a regular North Atlantic air mail service. Separate routes already exist across the South Atlantic with Buenos Aires near Paris or Berlin. In American farms there are 142 unmarried men for every 100 women, while large cities balance marriageable numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Atlantic
United States Post Office
Eckener
Atantic
Buenos Aires
Paris
Berlin
Massey Urges Expanding North American Ties in Speech
Vincent Massey told an audience in New York that North American relations should extend beyond borders. He praised Geneva and the Pact of Paris as models for replacing force with law and urged a shared ethic of collective responsibility to maintain peace. American-Canadian relations, he said, would gain new significance.
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Vincent Massey
New York
North America
Canada
Geneva
League of Nations
Society of Nations
Christmas Parole for Inmate as 73-Year-Old Fred Woods
At Joliet prison an elderly inmate, Fred Woods, receives five extra years instead of parole, tears in his eyes as he contemplates the extended sentence. He has tended gardens in prison for five years and is effectively without home or friends beyond the facility. The warden allows the extension, noting Woods has served half of a ten year term.
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Joliet
Fred Woods
Banana Flour Trade Prospects Highlight Banana Flour Production
Banana flour is produced in many regions including Netherlands India and Central America for export. Best yields come from yisang ambon and pitang radia varieties. processing involves sun drying and grinding with color and flavor typically muted. Some countries import chips for local milling. Germany and France use banana flour in baby foods and breakfast items. A note on Canadian 1934 swine numbers follows, with Quebec showing an increase by roughly 69,700.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Netherlands India
Central
South America
West Indies
Africa
Netherlands
India
Germany
Hamburg
France
Bracken Urges Broad Plan for Western Farm Rehab
Premier Bracken argues before the Canadian Club in Toronto for a fourfold program to rehabilitate drought hit lands in the prairies. He urges provincial action with federal support only as advisory, advocating land reclamation, farmer relief, and careful resource management to make western farming more profitable.
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John Bracken
Canada
Toronto
Manitoba
Bracken
Drouth
Fedral
Ottawa
Ontario
Oresees
Wallace
Roosevelt
Great Plains
Lakes
Gulf
Steels
McCar
Federal Department
Atlantic
California
Vagaries Of The Weather Across North America
The piece explains how temperatures vary across regions due to factors beyond latitude. It cites December 11 readings from New York State to Yukon and Prairies, noting wide contrasts such as 19 below in New York and 40 above in Edmonton, and argues altitude proximity to sea and winds shape climate as much as latitude, with coldest spots not always furthest north.
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New York State
Towa
Maryland
Dawson
Yukon
Simpson
Northwest Territories
Edmonton
Alberta
Calgary
Lethbridge
Medicine Hat
Winnipeg
Ontario
Toronto
Ottawa
London
Moose Jaw
Saskatchewan
Oakland
Misleading Ad Specimen Found at Santa Ines Mission
An old advertisement fragment mistaken for valuable parchment was found at the Santa Ines Mission in Santa Maria California. Arthur Woodward of the Los Angeles Museum identified the so called manuscript as a fly paper brand from a decade ago. General Smuts described early life and farm work in South Africa alongside Hertzog as leading authorities on weld grasses. Infra red imaging enables aerial photos through dense fog and smoke.
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Santa Inez
Santa Maria
California
Arthur Woodward
Los Angeles Museum
General Smuts
South Africa
General Hertzog
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Canada Gazette
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Mary
Cook
Travaso
Rome
Onvict’s
Lowon
Quebec
Duke of Kent
Marina
RB. Bennett
King George
Greece
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